They do.
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There are smaller ways that aren’t listed there – for example, when the Admiral Neighborhood Association has its quarterly cleanups, they gather at MM, which provides breakfast treats at the start, and sack/box lunches at the end for the volunteers.
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I never realized, overall, how many West Seattle businesses give so much, until I left citywide news and started working on WSB fulltime. Big corporations hire PR people to make a fuss over “contests” in which they get people to vie for a thousand dollars here and a thousand dollars there – but the sums and items donated by community businesses year in and year out are a so much higher percentage of their revenue, and too often you don’t hear much about it. This wasn’t PR, either – we have asked organizations like the Food Bank to let us know about things like this (and we invite any nonprofit or company to do the same – editor@westseattleblog.com) and happened to find out in time to go take a pic … Sorry, one of my soapbox issues! TR